1.   Regular evaluation of employee job skills is an important part of the job for those interviewers working in temporary help services companies.

2.   Another helps companies that make products in the United States and sell them abroad, retaining jobs here.

3.   Ellison also said Internet computing helps companies dramatically reduce their costs.

4.   Employee Solutions Inc. shares tumbled for a second day as the temporary help company delayed reporting its fourth-quarter results and told investors profits will fall below expectations.

5.   Exodus, which has data centers around the world, helps companies manage large Web sites and link them to the Internet backbone.

6.   Indiana stocks declined, as shares of software developer Software Artistry Inc. and temporary help company Personnel Management Inc. fell.

7.   Lower or steady bond prices helps companies and individuals get a handle on borrowing costs.

8.   Retail businesses, auto assembly factories and temporary help companies added the most jobs.

9.   UPS, through its online logistics services, helps companies manage everything from inventory control to tracking shipments.

10.   Manpower, the tempoary help company, said only six percent of the companies planned to eliminate jobs.